1. Bernard Stiegler was head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation, which he founded in 2006 at the Centre Georges-Pompidou.
14 Facts About Bernard Stiegler
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Bernard Stiegler was the founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, Ars Industrialis; the founder in 2010 of the philosophy school, pharmakon.
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Bernard Stiegler's best known work is Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus.
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Bernard Stiegler had dropped out of high school and instead took part in student revolts against current president Charles De Gaulle.
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Between 1978 and 1983 Bernard Stiegler was incarcerated for armed robbery, first at the Prison Saint-Michel in Toulouse, and then at the Centre de detention in Muret.
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Bernard Stiegler earned his doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1993 under the direction of Jacques Derrida, and obtained his Habilitation in 2007 at the universite Paris Diderot-Paris 7 under the direction of Dominique Lecourt.
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Bernard Stiegler was a Director at the College international de philosophie, and a professor at the Universite de Technologie at Compiegne, as well as a visiting professor at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Bernard Stiegler was Director of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation, which was created at his initiative in April 2006.
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Bernard Stiegler was at one time involved in a relationship with Catherine Malabou.
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Later he married Caroline Bernard Stiegler, who had been his lawyer.
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Bernard Stiegler had a daughter Barbara Bernard Stiegler born 1971, who is a philosopher and professor at the Universite Bordeaux-Montaigne.
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Bernard Stiegler is survived by his wife, Caroline Bernard Stiegler, and four children.
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Bernard Stiegler's work is influenced by, among others, Sigmund Freud, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Gilbert Simondon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Valery, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze, Donald Winnicott, Georges Bataille, and Jacques Derrida.
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Bernard Stiegler was a prolific author of books, articles and interviews, with his first book being published in 1994.